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Same as Sauropsida.

A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

See Smutch.

To suffocate or smother. [Written also smore.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir T. More. Burns.

urface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain. Chaucer. The outlines must be smooth, imperceptible to the touch, and even, without eminence or cavities. Dryden.

Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.

Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.

Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.

Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.

To make smooth. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, smooths.

fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.

In a smooth manner.

Quality or state of being smooth.

See Simoom.

To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.

stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.

Rubbed smooth. [Obs.] "An abrase table." B. Jonson.

hin itself a principle of acceleration. I. Taylor. (Astr. & Physics.) Acceleration of the moon, the increase of the moon's mean motion in its orbit, in consequence of which its period of revolution is now shorter than in ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Primi…